EAVE project NOTHING DOING IN BAGHDAD received production funding
In Development / Pre-production December 2014
CNC’s Aide aux cinémas du monde (World Cinema Support) 2014 is funding the following international co-productions by EAVE graduates:
- LES ETERNELS DE NADER by Takmil Homayoun, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
- PÉRES, FILS ET AUTRE HISTOIRES by de Phan Dang Di, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Claire Lajoumard
- THE LOAD by Ognjen Glanovic, producer: EAVE 2011 graduate Sophie Erbs
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- PAJAROS DE VERANO by Ciro Guerra, co-producer: Puentes 2012 graduate Katrin Pors gets support from the Colombian Film Fund.
- TOUCH ME NOT by Adina Pintilie, producers: EAVE 2011 graduate Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter, and EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril is in pre-production and will start shooting next spring in Romania and Germany. Pintilie is currently casting her drama, which centres on three characters with intimacy problems. The director says that she wants to explore the preconceptions we have about intimacy and the surprising ways in which it can be achieved. For this, she will show her characters as being torn between their need for attachment and the comfort they receive in their state of total independence.
- EAVE 2013 project NOTHING DOING IN BAGHDAD by Maysoon Pachachi, producer: EAVE 2013 graduate Talal Al-Muhanna has received production funding support from the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture and Visions Sud Est.
- THE SURVIVALIST by Janis Nords, producer B’EST 2012 graduate Alise Gelze is in development. Janis Nords is writing the drama of a schoolmaster who fakes his own death to escape mounting personal and financial pressures. The budget is 948,000 EUR, with 25,000 EUR of financing in place. The producers pitched the film at the Baltic Event Co-Production Market in search of co-production partners.
- THE INNOCENT by Matthew Thompson, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate and UK National Coordinator Christine Alderson is in development. Alderson’s production company Ipso Facto has gained remake rights to Pieter Kuipers’ thriller NOTHING TO LOSE from Dutch production outfit Pupkin Films and changed the title to THE INNOCENT. The story will be relocated to the US. It follows Johan, a prisoner in a psychiatric institution who believes that he has been wrongly convicted of the murders of his father and sister. With a life sentence hanging over his head, he breaks free, hoping to find the person who can clear his name.
Page published 22 December 2014. Updated 12 January 2015.
